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Aile gritted her teeth as Regice closed and attacked with a Hammer Arm, stumbling a bit from the attack, even with the help from everyone's attacks to lessen the blow. Aile would bite her bottom lip as she thought of what to do.

"Decisive, child," the rock golem would shout mentally at her, regaining his balance. "Wars are not won on having late decisions!"

"Sorry, your particular set of moves are not memorized yet, Regirock." She'd take a quick, deep breath to calm herself and think. "No, no, no.... We'll go with that right now. And then follow up later...."

"I see what you want me to do. Fine." Regirock would begin to harden his own body with metalic chi, using Iron Defense.

"Huh? How?... I suppose that makes sense, actually" she'd say to herself, about to move from the spot when the Light Screen would come up and block a fair chunk of the slag coming their way. "What? When did?.... " She'd look around and finally register the others there, a small smile coming to her face. "And here I thought I'd be only one facing her. I'm stupid sometimes." Her smile would fall, though, as she pointed to Zera's Magmar. "Eisley, take advantage of the disorientation and use Drill Run on it!" Eisley would salute before bringing his arms to the underside of his face, going into an enormous spin aimed at Magmar, allowing the chi from the Sandstorm to boost his attack further.

Sub had just been able to grab onto the latch to the next room's door before the force of the rocket taking off pulled him away from the door and sent him tumble back on the cold steel floor. This however did not stop the Snagem leader and his mission at hand; the apprehension of one Ein. It was going to take far more than a little gravity (little, right) to stop him.

As he wiped away the blood trickling down from his now broken nose with one of his already visible bruised up arms, Sub began to crawl his way up the floor, grabbing onto as many nearby objects for assistance, even stepping on Lykas at one point to help get his self on his feet and grab onto the door's latch yet again, throwing the now swinging door open and pulling himself through into the next room.

As Sub entered the next room he immediately saw the wounded and dying Bulder on the ground, the teeth marks telling the entire story of how he got in this state. While the sight was a gruesome one and Sub did indeed pity the man he tried not to show it, his face remaining as stern and cold as it had been since he arrived in Mossdeep City, save for the dried blood now adorning it. "Get some rest." He told the man before grabbing a hold of Lykas once he entered the room and whispered into his ear.

"Drain his life force, he isn't long for this world but there is no reason he should suffer anymore. Unless you have a better idea. Either way, I leave him to you." Sub instructed Lykas, handing him Gardy's Pokeball before giving Bulder one last look before walking through the room, paying little mind to the various objects, not even the disgusting news crew, his only concern was the hatch leading to the next room which he is certain will contain either the one responsible for Bulder's dying state or the man behind it all, or perhaps both. Only one way to find out as the man opened the hatch.

Seeing that Pitch had stopped with her song, Lynnette decided to recall the Noibat for the moment. Lyn knew that she couldn't really help much against Regice at this point, so instead she focused her attention on the Magmar. Another Safari Ball would find its way into her hand, releasing Yuki, Lynnette's Dewgong. The Sea Lion Pokemon's Thick Fat ability would help defend against any fire attacks, although it would still be at a slight disadvantage due to the fact they weren't in the water. But, Yuki was Lyn's best chance at helping out for the moment. "See if you can get close to that Magmar using an Aqua Jet," Lynnette would say. Yuki would let out a slight growl, diving forward and propelling herself forward with the water that she would release, moving as quickly as she could towards the Spitfire Pokemon.

Righting herself once the flight of the rocket smoothed out a bit. Taking no chances to get left behind, Silver would move to follow the other Snagems, growling slightly as she noticed that the news crew seemed to have continued along as well. The smell of blood coming from Bulder was thick in the Houndoom hybrid's nose, and although the hybrid knew nothing of S-22 herself, she could still tell that something awful had befallen the man. Her ears twitched at the sound of Missy shrieking her story, and Silver found herself growling again. Walking carefully towards the two, Silver would grab a hold of both the reporter and her cameraman, pulling them back away from Bulder. "Filming the poor man isn't going to help. Now I'd suggest you back off. You might be stuck on this flying tin can with us, but you really don't want to keep following us," she would growl out, her devilish tail flicking back and forth in irritation. Releasing her grip on the two of them, Silver hoped that maybe her words would finally get through those thick skulls of theirs.

In the rocket, once Lykas had managed to enter the next room right on Subs heels, he saw the lab and carnage that had befallen their comrade, though he had never really interacted with the man much. And as much of a self-centered person as he was, he agreed with Sub. "You shouldn't watch this." He warned the camera crew, walking over to Bulder with Gardy's Pokeball in his hand.

Kneeling down by the man, he spoke softly, calmly. "I'm so, so sorry that this happened to you. From what I've seen, you are a brave and courageous man who has fought to the last. Remember that you will never be forgotten. Snagem will make sure that what you have done for us and for the world will be spread as far across the globe as it can be." He said to Bulder, taking the man's head in his hands and gently laying him on the floor where he would be more comfortable. "Close your eyes, Agent Bulder, and sleep soundly. Slip peacefully into the next life and take what is given there to men who are true heroes in life." He said, tears coming to his eyes as he gently wrapped his ponytails around Bulder, they gaining a slightly brighter blue hue as the man's last vestiges of life energy was absorbed by the young hybrid. "Your life will not be wasted." He promised, setting the energy he had just taken aside for now. This would be fuel for a certain man's own just deserts.

Once the deed was done, he released Gardy from her ball. "Take him to Devon Corp and tell them he was killed by a man named Ein and his henchmen who hijacked the shuttle then Teleport back to Sub, understood?" He told her, turning towards the front of the rocket with hell shining through his lilac eyes.

"If you are set on recording this all," He began, his voice cracking slightly. "You had better be sure you catch every moment from here forward and know that I may be merciful but I am not lacking in a vengeful spirit if you muck up the truth with your personal input. Keep your mouth shut and let the world see just what it is that we stand for and what those we fight against stand for." He told the camera crew now before continuing forward once more.

Dull vanished into the ground before Odd could reach him, causing him to curse under his breath. "This guy's ticking me off." He growled, trying to track the hybrid's presence. He'd have given chase had the psychopath not gone on to destroy nearby buildings. With so little time to react, he was forced to make a decision. "Adagio!" He cried, releasing his Lampent into the area. "Quench the flames!" He ordered, sending the lamp-Ghost into the building in order to use her Flash Fire Ability to absorb the flames erupting from the gas pipes beneath the building.

"Dissonance! Stone Edge! I need support pillars!" He shouted as he threw out the shadowified Golurk's Pokeball. While the angry Ghost would have preferred to flat out attack and destroy something, he would settle, for the moment, with a bit of wanton destruction, slamming his immense feet into the ground and drawing massive stone spires from the earth to spear the upper levels of the nearest building, keeping it from completely caving just yet.

"Chorale! Freeze the gas pipes shut! We don't need any more fuel for the fire." He ordered the Froslass, who nodded and chased Adagio into the building she'd entered, Ice Beaming the pipes wherever she could find them, Adagio's Flash Fire drawing in and absorbing the flames in order to prevent unnecessary damage to her.

And that left Odd and Cadenza to find Dull since Aden seemed to have a handle on the evacuation, especially now that his Pokemon had a temporary halt to the utter destruction of one of the buildings. He hoped the people inside were scrambling to escape on their own though. Stupidity and/or stubbornness should be the last thing to kill someone today.

With his Fairy Lock at least slowing Regice down, Kaya held fast, trying to keep it from doing it's job. At last, until Zera's explosion went off almost in his face. His metal flesh was scorched by the heat and flames, sending him careening into a nearby wall, smoking a bit. "Owowowowow!" He yelped, trying hard not to succumb to the instant nearly body-wide burn across his front half. He wanted to get back up for the moment but he was barely able to move now. So instead, he called out to Primrose. "Razor Leaf!" The Leavanny nodded and began to sling leaves sharpened to incredible edges towards the general direction of Zera and her Regice, careful not to hit the Regi working to help them.

"Control, this is Team Snagem aboard Salvation One," Isaac replied to the hails, as he made his way over to the whirring mechanism. "Cipher has replaced half of the cure vials in the dispersion machine with what I assume to be more of the shadow virus. We have the removed cure vials in our possession and are attempting to replace them. Is the a way to halt the startup process?"

'Yah, Cera. That's why we need to hurry.' he thought at the tiny legend, as he attempted to unhook the vial of virus closest to entering the machine. 'Jam a cure vial into each slot once I've removed a virus vial. And while you're at it, pray that something else keeps S-22 busy. Ein's probably gonna realize what we are doing here shortly."

Aile eyed the Regi fight first, a slight grin growing on her face. "Phase two, Regirock," she'd send over to the golem, who would would attack the reforming arm with a Superpower attack, using tremendous power in the attack, but leaving itself a little more vulnerable than before.

"Going for the weak point. Cruel, almost."

"She's here to probably torment the people of this city and be a stalling point for Ein while he does whatever. She brought it upon herself. And besides. You yourself likened this to a war." Aile's gaze would fixate on Regirock for a good few seconds before switching to Eisley, who was tumbling in the air end over end. "Eisley!" The mole would land and continue tumbling for a while, ending near Aile.

"Ex ka..." He'd shake his head and slowly stand back up, but it was quite apparent he had taken a really bad hit from that. He was breathing really heavily, and his stance wasn't as sharp as before.

"Eisley, you're done for now. Relax, you'll get your chance later, I'm sure," she'd add on, trying to reassure the mole as she recalled him. Aile would put away his Pokéball and grabbed another one, trying to block the smoke coming in. "Bloody hell..." She'd send out her Nidorino this time, and pulled out a Moon Stone with her free hand. "Voort, I think you've earned something else, too. Also, we'll probably need the firepower."

The Nidorino looked at her with one eye closed against the Sandstorm, looking at her hand intently before motioning it onto the ground. Aile would comply and toss it onto the ground near him, where he would subsequently step on it with one of his hind legs. The Poison Pin Pokémon would be immersed in a bright light as the chi form the Moon Stone took hold changing his shape in a more drastic way. As the light died down, the newly evolved Nidoking roared and beat his new fists together, a smirk appearing on his face. Aile would look down at his foot to see the used Moon Stone now crushed under his hulking weight.

"Right, someone needed to make an entrance." She'd close her eyes for a moment, thinking. "Hm. Voort, I just want you to stay near for right now. Things are getting pretty chaotic over there, and I might need a refresh on the Sandstorm soon." Voort would nod and stand back, almost waiting for any attack to come near them. If he was on standby for the time being, he'd play interceptor for anything coming their way in the mean time.

The Magmar and Zera have time to register the Dewgong coming, but not enough time to stop it as the Aqua Jet comes in too fast for them to defend, and the seal overwhelms the Fire-type with a mass of water and blubber that comes crashing down on top of it with a crunch. The Air Slash from the Noivern would follow up, and there was no way even being uninjured at the start that the Pokemon was going to be able to withstand that combination of attacks. "Maggy!" Zera groans, quick with a Pokeball to return the fainted comrade, and a burst of light as she replaces it with another. "Go! Reuniclus!"

"Reun?" It asks sleepily, the Psychic-type blinking slightly as it tries to adjust to its new surroundings. But the first thing it notices is the weather, and it inhales and then spits in Regice's direction, coating the legend in a thick coat of liquid that seemed to be repelling the kernels of the sandstorm in the same method that was protecting the new Psychic as it yawns again, repelling the sand like iron filaments around a magnet.

"Yaaaaay Renny!" Zera cheers, striking a bit of a pose as she extends a hand towards the gathered Snagems still opposing her.

Meanwile, by the goliaths the targeted arm crumbles instantly at the Superpower, the Fighting type move causing the Regice to keen in pain again as it takes a couple of defensive steps backwards, the arm beginning to reform again as it does, the eyes on its face glowing slightly as it goes on the defensive. There's a slight shimmer to the ice for a moment making up its body as it uses Amnesia, trying to call some force to hold its form together before raising its one good arm, and with Kaya sufficiently distracted from his Fairy Lock launches an enormous Ice Punch with all its strength. The Razor Leaf from Primrose finds its way underneath the column of wind and ice to shave off pieces of the guardian here and there, chunks of ice falling to the ground and melting as the leaves shave the enormous Regi like a snow cone.

Zera shifts her pose as she sees what Regice is attempting, prodding her sleepy Psychic-type to action. "Wonder Room!" The little Pokemon nods, and focuses, both Regis encircled in a white light. The punch still in mid-flight looked like it was going to do a lot more damage due to the physically-defensive Regirock now relying on its shoddy Special Defense to survive physical attacks, and Regice now looked more prepared to fight. It may not have had Iron Defense, but it did have an Amnesia right before the stat swap and the ice giant was going to push its edge as its trainer supported it.


From the efforts of the two Snagems on the case, they manage to save just about all of the two people from death and or injury, the support pillars Odd had summoned managing to keep the teetering buildings from falling into the streets and injuring more people rather nicely, while at the same time an adorable little girl would give Aden a big hug as he helped shoo her out of the path of immediate danger in the arms of her mother who had enough time to thank him with tears in her eyes before bustling off with the little tyke. She waves happily over her mother's shoulder at him, blissfully unaware of any danger other than the loud noises. The rain Beau summoned puts the fires out, flames hissing as they extinguish in the drizzle. The gas seemed to be shut off now, as gas mains were no longer blowing left and right as they had been a moment ago. Once the three battle-weary Snagems finished saving the first line of people, they wouldn't need an excuse to try and draw Dull out into the open, as he would do it for them if they looked further on.

The albino Gengar was floating in the air in the middle of the city, charging up what looked like it was going to be one hell of a Shadow Ball, both hands melding and shaping the arcane death energies into a projectile as he cackles like a broken record, winding up to hurl it at the next building nearby when he's met with a salvo of Psychic energy, again not enough to do anything more than superficially smash against his body and glitch through it, but seeing as the attacks were super-effective, it gives him enough of an irritation to pause in his wanton destruction.

"Hey ugly!" A pair of voices shout in unison, as they calmly walk through the wreckage of the buildings Dull has been handily destroying. A Lunatone and Solrock float into view like an honor guard leading their trainers, both of whom are wearing a similar (identical actually) expression of seething anger. "This is our town!" Liza and Tate, the Mossdeep Gym Leaders point up at the floating hybrid, one of them barely able to keep their hand from shaking with rage. So much for identical. "This ends now!"

"Bring all your heroes!" Dull shouts back, opting to throw the Shadow Ball at the Gym Leaders now, forcing a quick Light Screen from the Lunatone to block it. The shield explodes into a thousand shards as the ball hits it, and the Mega Gengar cackles again, bobbing back and forth in midair. "Nothing of worth ever came from this world anyhow!"



As Freth and Blizz rushed forwards, they might notice that Kess moved with them, watching both of their movements to prevent herself from being surrounded so easily, so it was with little hesitation that when the Ancientpower came up behind her and Freth zeroed in from the front, that Kess hit the throttle with Agility. And while Freth was fast, Kess was faster, much faster, just like a wild Zapdos when paced against an Articuno. She zips outside of the ring of pillars before she can get caught inbetween them and winds underneath Freth, not even trying to throw an attack as she folds her wings back for pure speed. Her intentions are made clear a couple paces past that when she catches Tristen, finally separated from the duo Articunos that had made nabbing him difficult before. She scoops him up with her one good arm like a goshawk catching rodents, sword still in hand, as she wraps it around his neck in a chokehold, keeping her back away from both hybrids.

"Now. I think I'd stop." she says, coldly eyeing her adversaries over the top of the boy's head, squeezing on his throat a little for emphasis. "You both are good, I must admit."





Bulder groans as he feels the last of his life leaving him and he tilts his head backwards. "Tell... tell Mully that I..." And that was it, before he expired. Gardevoir was going to have to be completely precise if she wanted to make the jump off this rocket, because teleporting while moving at speeds like this tended to not lose their momentum once quantum transference of their matter had occurred. If she wanted to try, it was fair, but maybe that would be a concern once the rocket had actually stopped. She could protect his body from further defilement, however.

The camera crew had shown the decency at least to turn away for a dying man's final moments, but they were still roaming around the rocket with interest, being sure to film every detail as they could. "Personal input?" Missy asks, as her mustachioed camera man taps the blinking red light on the side of his recording device. "This is all live, at least until we lose signal. You all determine what's said not me." She turns back to the lens of the camera, her microphone up to her mouth again. "Missy Hisakawa here in the middle of the Mossdeep Rocket Crisis! We'll keep you all updated as best we can with any developments in the current crisis!"

The door Sub opens hisses again, demonstrating differentiating pressures between sealed areas, and it led into a rather open, empty sort of room that was essentially bare except for a couple of things. Another door, on the other end of the room for one thing, this one labeled 'cockpit' above it in helpful looking letters. The other thing was seven feet of living, breathing, killing machine. S-22 the Sharpedo hybrid turned weapon turned its sightless visor upon Sub as soon as he entered the room. The thing hadn't even moved to react to his presence, standing stock still with its muscular arms folded across its chest. The prison jumpsuit that served as its small means of clothing flapped slightly in the breeze of the pressure moving from the door hissing, S-22 emblazoned above its breast pocket on one side. No one had even been able to sense it, and as it finally moves people watching it knew without hesitation if death was given form S-22 was it. Fast as lightning, the hybrid suddenly appears in front of Sub without giving any indication it was even going to move and lightly, almost mockingly as though Ein had commanded it, gives the Snagem leader a light backhand that if it connects contained enough force to send him sprawling across the room he had just entered from.

The news reporter, for once, is speechless. The camera devours every angle of the hybrid killing machine just like a rather unfortunate turn of phrase, considering the situation and all.



"Team Snagem...?" the voice on the other end of the line asks, unsure of the situation. There's a brief pause and some scuffling on the other end before another voice breaks through.

"Issac my boy! You made it! I told these spaceship guys to keep a lookout for the team. There's a switch on the back of the machine that should slow down the loading process so you can swap out the vials! Bulder put it there in case of emergencies or jams! Any news on Agent Bulder? Mully's just so worried, even if she won't admit it and..." Cozmo had clearly found his way into the mission control building and this spiel was getting rather long at a rather inappropriate time.